10 Reasons WWE Might Bring Back The World Heavyweight Championship

9. The Short Break Has Boosted The Title's Worth

One of the criticisms of the World Heavyweight Championship was that it had diluted in worth. This was true. It had been bandied about in too many undercard matches and silly situations. The calibre of Champion remained good, but the booking was just atrocious. The prime example was the Big Gold Belt being the curtain jerker at WrestleMania 28, where Sheamus defeated Champion Daniel Bryan in just 18 seconds. Despite things like that damaging the title, it still remained valuable all the way up to its December 2013 unification. It had hardly fell to the levels of the Intercontinental or US title belts. Still, the belt wasn't what it once was. It needed something to restore a bit of meaning - which its ten month break has now achieved. Now we are in a position where it feels valuable again, benefiting from the old 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' idea. A return of the belt would feel like an event, it would give wrestlers a reason to fight. The break has diminished memories of the belt's poorer years, all we've remembered were the good times. So a break was perhaps the right thing to do, with a return of the lineage now the next good choice to make.